Ted Morton

Alison Redford may not have intended to, but she smashed the mould. Alberta politics will never be the same again. It all started five years ago today.

Ye shall know them by their friends … and some of Jason Kenney's are pretty interesting to contemplate.

It's been almost nine months now. Surely it's time for Alberta conservatives to get up to speed on how this democracy thing works!

It is hard to believe that much non-partisan, independent academic scholarship takes place in the atmosphere encouraged at the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy.

If interim PC Leader Ric McIver is serious about rebuilding his party, he needs to start listening more carefully to what former premier Ed Stelmach has to say.

A sales tax? In Alberta? Alberta Premier Jim Prentice has obviously taken former finance minister Ted Morton's advice to heart that "this fiscal crisis is too good to waste."

The PC Party board of directors voted on Saturday to have all their candidates nominated by the Ides of March. After that, a vote is bound to follow quickly.

Yesterday's bungled Bill 10 brouhaha reveals Alberta Premier Jim Prentice is just another politician who puts his pants on one leg at a time … backwards.

Watch out! The fight to save public services, fair pensions for the people who deliver them, and the very idea of a public sector is far from over in Alberta.

If Ric McIver were to beat Jim Prentice for the Tory crown, he'd be the third candidate in a row not favoured by the party establishment to pull off the feat, fourth if you count Ralph Klein.

The "Friends of Science" is an interesting group, another part of the vast, intricate and well-funded network of loony-right fronts linked back to the "Calgary School."

Alberta NDP Leader Brian Mason announced his retirement plans yesterday. When he goes, taking his famous one-liners with him, the silence around here will be deafening.

Every day the list of promising leadership prospects no longer interested in becoming the last Progressive Conservative premier in Alberta history gets longer.

Alberta Premier Alison Redford resigned yesterday. Deputy Premier Dave Hancock has been named interim Premier.

What are we Albertans going to do with this embarrassment of riches? Who knows?

If CBC Edmonton investigative reporter Charles Rusnell were a police officer, he'd be the kind of cop who'd ticket the chief's car at a funeral.

It is not known when adherents of the Canadian neocon faith will elect their new spiritual leader -- although it's possible Preston Manning is available for the job.

Alberta’s education minister told teachers they could face a pay cut if they don’t accept the government’s parsimonious four-year deal by March 7. Yesterday the teachers told him to drop dead.

Alberta Premier Alison Redford and Finance Minister Doug Horner have been singing Gloomy Thursday, a tune so melancholy many listeners are tempted to jump off a fiscal cliff!

Warning: This is a work of humour. Actual events may not turn out exactly as predicted, or even close, sort of like Fraser Institute studies in that regard.

It's apparent Pastor Allan Hunsperger, the Wildrose Lake of Fire guy, is going to be made to wear the party's election loss last spring for all eternity.

Alberta Premier Alison Redford appears to want to try to maintain the informal alliance her government built in the last days of last spring's provincial election with unionized public service workers